Barcamp Nairobi 2013 live-blog

Hey guys I’m at the ihub for the Barcamp Nairobi and today I’m going to attempt a live blog. It’s lunch time now and there no talks going on now but they begin in 10 mins keep this page open for updates. Catch you in 10 mun

Talking with Andrew from Ujamaa Ventures giving me advice on my application’the one I’ve been developing the last 3 months, hard questions with no answers 😀Now on the talk on Innovation Ecosystem by TonyWe’re trying to shine on our own yet we need to work togetherThings we need to do

Acquire knowledge from abroad and around the country

Create the knowledge

We need more social innovations we shouldn’t focus on commercial application

Research and development

Learning(marrying the curriculum with the market)

Major stake holders in this are the Government, companies and Universities/R&D institutionsQuestions:How do we adapt this further to involve small companies, and start ups?14.20 Thanks Tony for the time stamp thing

Of course mpesa came up14.22 He’s had to defend his model, but to be fair he isn’t done yet14.27 Last thought on this: Each country needs to devote at least 3% of their budget to R&D

14.30 Angry birds makes you angry by StephenThink this many be on the evolution of games14.32 So far evolution of the use interface from DOS to now14.33 the same UI is being used on mobile that we had on desktop14.36 When you touch your screen you touch the world(web)14.40 We’ve programed the world to use buttons why teach people to use new interfaces? -Me14.43 When we were young our creativity was not limited now we limit ourself to lines14.46 Make is easy for the user to change their interface14.48 Users won’t tell you your UI sucks14.50 Start with the user. The app has to do what they expect14.52 Stephen was told his app UI sucks 😀

14.54 Snowden, Manning and wikileaks by Gachies14.56 One guy supports Manning’s sentence, rest not so much14.58 Malaria Research that tracked people via mobile(More on this in another post maybe)14.59 No one in Kenya takes privacy seriously(Government, companies, individuals)15.02 The researches had access to over 10m peoples movements15.07 Read the T&Cs for theservices you use15.08 We need to find ways to protect user data15.09 There’s a data protection bill in Parliament15.11 COFEK is not doing it’s job, we need to petition us to protect us15.13 No one has the right to access someone one else information

15.15 Break!!!

15.25 Pain points by TobiasThings that we want to change15.30 Hyperloop15.33 Challenge is to find our pain points and think of the solutions15.39 Non technical solution to traffic. 😀15.44 People talking about solving traffic15.45 Security now up15.52 Now discussing traffic again

behavioral change

Decentralise the CBD

Remove the round about

Use the traffic lights, get rid of the cop

Effective public system

15.57 Through Glass by Linda15.58 Google Glass she has a pair16.00 What will we use Glass for?16.01 She went to the bank with them on16.05 How do we protect ourselves from glass?16.06 There’s only one design16.07 They’ll cost $1500 I’ll never get them16.12 Achirachix a tech group for ladies

16.27 The Plenary session16.29 Talking about content 16.31 Do better than your best16.36 We are wired to tell stories 16.38 Good content is expensive16.40 You need a large market if things are to work16.44 Understand how to enter global markets16.46 Move from profit driven to product driven16.54 We need to learn to consume our own crap not crap from other nations16.58 Think of your audience17.00 I JUST WON A BOOK!!

17.06 Does Africa need borders?17.16 Border discussion is now at the point where we think about how they create boundaries17.17 Why are we as techies worried about borders?

17.19 Who stole my idea?17.20 Are ideas of any value?17.21 Ghafla is doing 1.2m unique views per day17.23 Patents have come up(I personally don’t like them)17.27 If you’ve got no capacity to implement, we can’t talk17.29 Biological sciences have come up now17.31 Use your speed to innovate faster17.32 There is nothing in Kenya to protect a NDA!!!17.33 OpenNDA website17.37 An idea has value!!17.39 We need to set parameters to our ideas17.41 Giving credit would help a lot17.43 Through out our education we expect to picked17.43 Who ever executes first and best holds the cards17.46 Don’t discuss your ideas17.47 We have a law that tells us when an idea has materialised when you can sue for it